Ruins🏛️ City & settlementMiddle Ages & early modern
Ayutthaya Historical Park
The city documents international trade and the development of a distinctive Siamese court and temple culture. Its destruction and continuing memory hold an important place in Thai historiography.
Photo: Christophe95 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Facts
- Place
- Ayutthaya, Thailand
- Civilisation / patron
- Kingdom of Ayutthaya
- Built
- 1350 – 1767
- Destroyed
- 1767 · Captured and heavily destroyed by the Burmese army.
- Status
- Ruins
- UNESCO World Heritage since
- 1991
- UNESCO World Heritage
History
Ayutthaya developed on an island between rivers and grew into an important Siamese capital. Palaces, monasteries and tall temple towers stood in a city with extensive trading connections across Asia and Europe. In 1767 a Burmese army captured and heavily destroyed the capital. Power then shifted to other cities, while the ruins of temples and palaces now form a historical park.
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Sources: Wikipedia — Historisch Ayutthaya